11/19/2008 - 4:52 pm
tags: 2008 Campaign | Hillary Clinton
I've been
floating a theory that one reason Barack Obama could be elected
president while Jesse Jackson could not is that Obama was not part of
the Civil Rights movement, the movement that clearly helped make these
historic events possible. Obama has emerged, post-Civil Rights, the
way having been cleared for him by a previous generation, much like the
Israelites were said to be forced to wander in the desert for 40 years,
waiting for enslaved generations to die off and make way for a
generation that knew only freedom. Believe me, I understand that
freedom is relative and not absolute; however I think the metaphor can
be applied.
